Information, Information Technology, and Local Governance
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This initiative combines institutional analysis and technology insight to identify specific ways to improve local governance in India.
Environmental Policy and Sustainability
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This initiative seeks to contribute research insights on environmental policy issues at the national, state and regional levels with specific focus on energy, transportation, forestry and climate change.
Environmental Quality and Justice
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This initiative seeks to evaluate the effectiveness of current institutional arrangements for enforcing environmental legislation and regulations in India and identifying ways in which implementation can be improved.
Sustainable Finance
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Sustainable finance begins with recognizing and integrating environmental and social risk assessment and management into financial institution's risk management process.
Sustainable Urban Infrastructure
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Examines policies and practices that promote environmentally sustainable urban development.
Rural Market Insight
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RMI seeks to improve the impact of social venture investing and social enterprise by delivering deep, actionable insight into rural market behavior.
State Sustainability Strategies
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The ‘State Sustainability Initiative’ aims to contextualise sustainability at the state level, identify policies that directly and indirectly influence sustainability at the state level and suggest a list of policy steps to improve the sustainability of states.
Black Carbon: Strategies for Emissions Reduction
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This initiative seeks to identify policies and business models to reduce emissions from both fossil fuel and biomass sources. We are currently focusing on ways to reduce household and small industry emissions given the health co-benefits. We will be looking at transport-related emissions in the near future.